Outputs (2)

Religious nationalism, strategic detachment, and the politics of vernacular humanitarianism in post-war Sri Lanka (2022)
Journal Article
Widger, T. (2023). Religious nationalism, strategic detachment, and the politics of vernacular humanitarianism in post-war Sri Lanka. Social Anthropology, 31(1), 67-84. https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2023.310106

Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka (2022)
Journal Article
Widger, T. (2023). Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka. Ethnography, 24(3), 432-449. https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381221134402

Through an historical ethnographic analysis of Sri Lanka’s oldest charity, the Colombo Friend-in-Need Society, this article explores changing modalities of humanitarian “relations” in colonial and post-colonial contexts. For two hundred years, “the S... Read More about Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka.